Crook

24• I’m being haunted

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[pocketfulloftbricks]

Typed “I want to have long hair the way men have long hair” into my gc and then promptly deleted it. But I couldn’t let the thought die

[kikokuso]

I have a new favourite batshit rail idea

Please build it for the funny please please please

[vacuously-true]

You're right. I SHOULD be able to take the train from Minneapolis to Berlin.

[achillesinhighheels]

[tartharyen]

checking in. (insp)

[neskaaa]

Modern au Baelor and maekar 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

By: crazy_toma777

[thecollectibles]

Art by Priya Kakati

[plastiboo]

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[pocketfulloftbricks]

I have celestial dreams about the moog synth

[mindblowingscience]

Report: 'Urgent' change needed to tackle bullying in astronomy and geophysics

"Urgent" action is needed to address an "insidious" and systemic bullying problem within the world of astronomy and geophysics, a report war

"Urgent" action is needed to address an "insidious" and systemic bullying problem within the world of astronomy and geophysics, a report warns. The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has today published a list of recommendations to tackle the issue, after finding that such coercive behavior and harassment is rife within the two sciences. A survey commissioned by the society showed that disabled people, women, Black and minority ethnic, and LGBTQ+ people are much more likely to be bullied and harassed than men and white, straight, and non-disabled people. It also found that two-thirds (65%) of respondents who reported complaints felt their concerns had been handled inadequately.

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[lucidicer]

i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.

[bundibird]

Reminder that before all this, the population of Gaza was approximately 2,300,000. The current death toll is around 15,500 - possibly as many as 20,000. That's horrific, yes. But that means that there are still at least 2,280,000 gazans alive and kicking. There are 2.28 million people who would benefit from a permanent ceasefire; for an end to Israeli hostility; for increased aid and reliable access to food and water. There are still 2.28 million people that Israel has not managed to kill.

So keep making noise. Do whatever you can to help those 2.28 million living people, and to remember and honour the 15,000-20,000 lives that have been taken. Giving up on Gaza helps no one but Israel.

[sayruq]

[birdsareblooming]

my biggest pet peeve with palestine news posts rn is the "nobody cares about them" or "no one is saying anything" "the world is silent"

if you make statements like this you're kidding yourself. you can't say that than immediately reblog/post a post about thousands of people protesting in one space, probably billions on the planet right now. don't equate cooperations and governments to literally everyone (especially western stuff, governments in the area are absolutely not silent.)

"Nobody speaks on human life" yes they are. stop saying that for misery porn or an attempt to get dirty reblogs. don't discount the billions of people shouting at the top of their lungs until their throats are sore. literally the smallest statement to add but shut the fuck up, actually

[klapollo]

ok im already starting to see other people point out that joking about panera's neglect killing multiple people with heart problems through that lemonade is probably bad and doing footwork for a corporation being sued for said neglect maybe im not ridiculous

[klapollo]

like look let's pretend saying "the panera lemonade that kills you" for the 50000th time in six months is actually funny. even so. what are these jokes doing besides neutering the culapbility of a company facing legal action for irresponsible marketing that has killed at least two people, one of whom was just 21 years old. the lawsuit says that the disregard could potentially lead to endangering children as well as people who are pregnant and breastfeeding.

dennis brown, the other person who died because of this, was a disabled man with chromosomal deficiency disorder and high blood pressure who already made a concerted effort to not drink energy drinks specifically because he was aware it was dangerous. if panera had been responsible and forthcoming, he no doubt would have avoided drinking it in the first place, let alone three in one sitting which led to a fatal cardiac event that took his life. imagine how the people who loved dennis and sarah katz feel seeing the tragic deaths of their loved ones be reduced to a meme that practically markets the thing that killed them, and promotes the company whose irresponsible practices contributed to it.

i dont think people are evil for hopping on this meme, but in a post-stella liebeck world we NEED to think about who it benefits to see the headline "panera lemonade causes two people to die" and instead of interrogating further we talk about how funny it is that people died from lemonade or how we neeeeeeed to try this "cocaine lemonade" or whatever -- basically marketing the product they're being sued over and giving free advertising to panera as a reward for fatal neglect.

[dayinadream]

Stupid israeli propaganda